Soon...

Antonio has been gone for 233 days. It has been a blur, poor kids, I will have no memory of the last 3 years. Anyways, he will be coming home in just under 2 weeks for his leave. We are going to visit the Great Wolf Lodge in Virginia. I am excited, for those of you who live close to there, we love you but wont be stopping by this time. I know all of you understand. We also are going to have some time to ourselves, aaaahhhhh we wont know what to do with ourselves, well.....LOL. It will be over night, I am really excited and it will be very refreshing. Well thats all i have for now, i will attach a few picture for your viewing pleasure.

In school that day we were talking about the five senses and we took picture of them pointing to the body parts the we use for each sense. So here are two of them, sorry about the extreme close up of Devin's nose he was right next to me on the chair.

Knitting

A couple of months ago I was trying to learn to knit. I watched a DYI video on the Internet that taught me to cast on and do the knit stitch. So i did that for awhile, but soon decided i wanted to do a project. So I went online and bought a knitting book with much excitement to start my first project. I soon got my books in and found a pattern that I liked and ran off to Micheals to get my supplies. As I stood in the yarn isle searching for the yarn i needed (not a sales person in sight mind you) I couln't find the right yarn. Really i found everything but what i needed. I was very discouraged needless to say. Then i signed Ashlyn up for dance class here in Richlands. I also discovered this great little yarn shop. Then lady is great who works there, she has been knitting since she was 5 years old and is a very wise and patient teacher. So i sat down with her and she showed me more about knitting in 10 minutes then i had learned in the past 3 months. I started with dishcloths/washcloths and then moved on to hats. I am currently on my second hat. Below is a picture of the first hat when i started it. I will post the finished product when i get a minute to take a picture. So i am really loving knitting, next i will learn to do mittens. Enjoy

Busy Busy

Ashlyn has become the busy little bee this year. She is loving soccer and dance class. She started dance in June and is currently on her second week of soccer. She is one of two girls on the soccer team. The other girl is a fellow homeschooler we met at the dance school.
















She gets pretty tired out there running around and being that it's 9:00 am and probably 85 degrees doesn't help matters. The heat seems much more intense this year and the bugs in Richlands would send the ones at our house scurrying in a hurry,eeech.






























Here is my little clown, Devin, He is something else. He has officially entered the whiny three year old stage of life. I didn't have fond memories of it from the first time and this time definitely isn't leaving a positive lasting impression. We are currently trying to be on a school schedule and do all of our stuff daily, we are 1/1 so far. Hopefully we keep it up. Ashlyn is able to sound words out more quickly and even is recognizing words in her environment. I am so proud of her. Devin is starting the random counting that I remember Ashlyn doing, the 1,4,6,9,10. He actually helped me count to 20 in the car the other day, it was just me and him and i was very surprised at all the numbers he knew.

Antonio is due for a visit in about 36 days (not that i am counting or anything) and we are so excited. We plan to visit the Great Wolf Lodge in Williamsburg, Va and then we are going to also have some time to ourselves overnight. The only time we left our kids overnight was when Devin was born so this will be interesting, I am excited. Take care everyone

My 5 Month Project

When we first decided to move into our new house I knew I wanted the kids to have bunkbeds. Sop after we got moved out of the old house i went and bought new mattresses and a bunkbed. On the way home I was chatting with my friend and she told me she could make bunkbeds for much cheaper. So I went and cancelled my purchase and set forth on my adventure. You woldnt think it would be too much work to sand, stain (4 coats), and polyurithain (2 coats), but let me tell ya it is. So the project finally got finished about 2 or 3 weeks ago, only to be followed by a bat of hand, foot, and mouth virus that whipped throught the whole family. But that is another blog in and of it's self, so here is a picture of our finished beds.

The Adventures of FLower Girl and Spiderman

Ashlyn and Devin or should I say flower girl and spiderman were posing for the camera. I know Devin looks like a little rapper but that was not the pose he was going for. They had so much fun















The rest of the photos are of Ashlyn tying her bunnies ears. I thought it was precious, and it is awesome to see her getting closer to tying her shoes!!
















































THe most beautiful part of this was, it was all her idea, I didnt have to force her to learn, and as you can see by this picture she is so proud of herself. I thank God for allowing me to homeschool.!!!!!!!